Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP

12 years ago
2h 59m – Intermediate Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP with David Gassner describes how to install and configure Apache HTTP server, MySQL database server, and PHP, known as the AMP stack, on a local development computer. Chapters are devoted to multiple installation approaches: ...

Foundations of Programming: Object-Oriented Design

13 years ago
3h 1m – Intermediate Most modern programming languages, such as Java, C#, Ruby, and Python, are object-oriented languages, which help group individual bits of code into a complex and coherent application. However, object-orientation itself is not a language; it’s simply a set of ...

Drupal 7 Advanced Training

13 years ago
7h 50m – Intermediate This course teaches web site designers how to take their sites to the next level with a few advanced techniques and the free and open-source Drupal software. Author Tom Geller shows how to configure the most popular add-on modules; use *nix commands and an FTP ...

Building an Ecommerce Web Site Using Dreamweaver with PHP

13 years ago
3h 53m – Beginner In this course, author Lawrence Cramer offers two approaches to implementing ecommerce functionality in Dreamweaver: introducing basic ecommerce functions to an existing site and creating a stand-alone ecommerce solution with PHP and MySQL. The course explores ...

MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications

13 years ago
3h 35m – Intermediate In this course, author Drew Falkman tours four open-source PHP frameworks: Zend, Symfony, CakePHP, and CodeIgniter. The course covers basic framework concepts; explores the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern as a means of simplifying, organizing, and maintaining ...

CSS: Styling Forms

13 years ago
4h 1m – Beginner This course covers CSS best practices and techniques for styling and structuring forms. Author Ray Villalobos explains how forms work, best practices for structuring HTML, new additions to forms in HTML5, and how to style individual elements. The course discusses how ...

HTML5: Background Processes with Web Workers

13 years ago
52m 11s – Intermediate In this course, author Bill Weinman describes how to perform background processing using the Web Workers API in HTML5. Web workers provide background processing for JavaScript, keeping pages responsive while allowing your scripts to run independently. The course ...

HTML5: File API in Depth

13 years ago
59m 9s – Intermediate Join author Joe Marini as he demonstrates how to use the HTML5 File API to perform file-related operations from within a web page, including manipulating files, reading and accessing data within files, and retrieving information about files. The course also ...

PostgreSQL 9 with PHP Essential Training

13 years ago
4h 45m – Beginner In this course, author Bill Weinman shows how to architect PostgreSQL databases and integrate them into web applications using PHP. The course covers the basics of creating tables, storing data with data types, and working with expressions, operators, and strings. ...

Creating an Adaptive Web Site for Multiple Screens

13 years ago
3h 9m – Intermediate This course demonstrates how to build a web site that automatically adapts its layout to various screen sizes, orientations, and resolutions. Ray Villalobos shows how designers and developers can create a single HTML document and customize its display for desktop ...

Web Form Design Best Practices

13 years ago
3h 46m – Appropriate for all In this course, interaction designer Luke Wroblewski shows how to create web forms that encourage visitors to enter information and covers ways to capture input without the use of forms. The course covers boosting conversion rates and customer ...

Flex 4.5 and PHP: Creating Data-Driven Applications

13 years ago
3h 36m – Intermediate This course teaches developers how to integrate Flex applications with PHP-based data services. Author Drew Falkman demonstrates retrieving XML data from a PHP server with HTTPService, connecting PHP classes to Flex using the amfPHP, WebOrb and ZendAMF adapters, ...

Mobile Web Design & Development Fundamentals

13 years ago
5h 47m – Beginner This course surveys the core principles and techniques essential to building web sites for mobile devices. Author Joe Marini introduces the mobile context, sheds light on its unique coding requirements, and discusses interface design techniques that enhance existing ...

Analyzing Your Website to Improve SEO

13 years ago
1h 43m – Intermediate In this course, search engine optimization (SEO) expert Peter Kent walks step-by-step through the process of reviewing the content and markup of an existing web site to improve its ranking in search engine results. This course offers a consultant’s take on ...

WordPress 3: Building Child Themes

13 years ago
3h 11m – Intermediate Create a child theme based on an existing parent theme in WordPress and change the functionality, presentation, or styling of your website. In this course, author Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to use the default WordPress theme, Twenty Twelve, as a basis for a ...

WordPress – Creating Custom Widgets and Plugins with PHP

14 years ago
3h 51m – Intermediate In WordPress: Creating Custom Widgets and Plugins with PHP, Drew Falkman teaches PHP developers how to create custom functionality for WordPress 2.0 through 3.0 using widgets and plugins. This course starts by installing and setting up WordPress 3.0 on both Mac ...

PHP with MySQL Beyond the Basics

16 years ago
10h 27m – Intermediate In PHP with MySQL Beyond the Basics, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund introduces powerful PHP programming techniques using object-oriented programming (OOP). Both novice and experienced PHP developers will benefit from the efficient, well-organized, reusable, ...